Any woman that complains of being fat, having menopause, or does any type of whining about anything pertaining to their body that doesn’t have some sort of weight gaining disease or metabolism deficiency has absolutely zero excuse from this point forward to not at least try to look good.

Wow.  These women are a true blessing.

She’s in better shape than your daughter

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Metamucil!

Fiber One!

The Golden Girls

Fried Green Tomatoes!

Mary Poppins!

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Preparing for the Waxing Experience

Step 1
Get recommendations from friends and family. If possible, try to get recommendations from women who are similar in age. When our skin ages, it loses elasticity and must be treated somewhat differently when waxed.

Step 2
Research the salons and estheticians in your area.

Step 3
Research what the salon considers a bikini wax. Generally, a bikini wax will remove hair at or around the area covered by a bikini bottom, allowing you to wear an average swimsuit with confidence. More extreme waxing processes, like the Brazilian, will remove all the hair. Some salons, and some estheticians, don’t offer these.

Step 4
Research the kinds of wax the salons use. A lot of salons use soy wax, which is gentle on the skin, but not an option if you have a soy allergy.

Step 5
Get something else waxed prior to setting up the bikini wax, if you can. Women have differing tolerances to the pain associated with waxing. If having your upper lip or lower legs waxed leaves you in agony, you might not be ready for a bikini wax (although some women say having their legs waxed hurts more than the bikini area).

Step 6
Grow the hair to ¼ inch. But, trim hair that is too long. You can trim it to about ¼ inch as well. It is necessary to have at least ¼ inch for the wax to grab the hair, but it also helps for the hair not to be too long. The longer the hair, the more likely it can get matted with the wax. It does tend to be less painful when the hair has been trimmed back somewhat.

Step 7
Schedule the appointment for a time when you do not have your menstrual period, it can be more painful then. Some salons won’t do a wax during a client’s menstrual period for health reasons.

Step 8
Take 400 mg of ibuprofen before the visit.

Step 9
Wear some cotton underwear that you won’t mind parting with. Your esthetician will be quite skilled at applying the wax, and the wax will most likely be thick enough that it won’t run. But you might want to wear an older, non-frilly pair just in case some wax does get on them.

Step 10
Shower shortly before the waxing, if possible. Wax will adhere better to clean, dry skin. Showering will wash away any dirt or dead skin cells that could cause blemishes if any wax gets trapped in the pores.

Step 11
Use an astringent on the area to be waxed shortly beforehand, if possible. Drying out the hair slightly can help the wax adhere to the hair better and make the waxing more productive.

The Waxing

Step 1
Relax. For most women, a bikini wax is nowhere near as painful as they expect it to be.

Step 2
Tell the esthetician what you are looking for.

Step 3
Strike up a conversation with the esthetician. Distraction can help you relax and make the process more comfortable.

Step 4
Be prepared for the esthetician to ask you to remove your pants or skirt. You will leave your underwear on for a basic bikini wax. The esthetician will just ask you to slide it out of the way as necessary.

Step 5
Lay back, relax, and let the esthetician do the rest. The wax will be warm, but not too hot. The esthetician shouldn’t apply too much wax at one time. Then a fabric strip will be placed over the wax and removed in the direction of the hair growth. You will feel it as it is removed. Don’t be embarrassed to ask the esthetician to stop if it is too painful. But don’t be surprised if you do still get charged for at least half a wax. Once the waxing is done, your esthetician will apply a cream to soothe your skin.

The Advertising Standards Complaints Board, in decisions issued yesterday, found both commercials breached an industry code of practice forbidding the use of sex appeal simply to draw attention to a product.

Its decisions were in contrast to a board ruling last year that dismissed complaints against a Burger King advert featuring three young women on horses at a beach, and the food chain intends to appeal.

Burger King’s management was unavailable but its Auckland advertising agency, Y&R, said it hoped to win support from the Advertising Standards Complaints Appeals Board for resumed screenings.

In one advertisement the women are depicted as wearing bikinis in professional jobs, and then dropping everything they are doing to ride to the nearest Burger King.

The other shows the women wearing bikinis while a voiceover tells viewers: “The BK girls share everything – their bed, their clothes, exercise equipment and a love of ice-sculpture and horses.”

One of eight complainants, N. Stratmore, said she was a 37-year-old who did not consider herself a prude but was shocked to see it with her 3-year-old daughter during Home and Away.

“I don’t feel at her age I should be explaining to her what three young women are doing riding horseback semi-naked.”

Burger King and its agency submitted that the sequence was intended as an irreverent follow-up to the beach advert, and that “to avoid any confusion that we were attempting to present our BK Girls in an overtly sexual manner, we ensured that the shooting style came across as a mockumentary”.

“We also ensured that the girls were dressed in bikinis that an average young woman would typically be comfortable in.”